bugman
08-09-2006, 06:07 PM
Hello team
Forgive me father for I have sinned - this is my first report in over 3 months. I shall strive to do better.
As many of you may know I've moved south - pretty much as south as you can go in Australia - except for Maquarie Island.
I've been really busy in the new store but managed to head out last Thursday to a little dam "Colebrook" - north of Richmond - about 40mins out of Hobart.
Wind was howling so picked a corner of the dam that the wind was blowing into and had stirred up the water to a nasty brown colour. Thought it should hold most of the feed but seeing as everyone else on the shore was on the other side out of the wind i thought I could be in the wrong.
Second cast with the green and gold ashley spinner (gotta have the 3 red dots on the side) had a hook-up at my feet as I was lifting the lure out of the water. It didn't stick. 25 minutes later hooked something solid after only 3 turns of the reel and a lovely brown came screaming out of the water and did plenty of tail walking. The 6lbp fireline was singing of the little Shimano and the new Daiwia rod was under nice curve.
Had to beach land him with no landing net but the lure was well an truly engulfed in his big gob and embedded. Leanne captured most of it on the digital from the next bay. She ran over for the close ups before the fish was succesfully released to terrorise someone else.
Moved further around the lake to the shallows where a little river comes into and floods out into shallow paddocks. Switched to a smaller Ashley spinner in the same colour to stay out of the weed. Had a bump earlier and 10 mins later got thumped by a big browny about 6 foot in front of me which I managed to see as it rolled over on the lure but failed to hook-up solid. The side of the fish as it came out of the water with the splash in the shallow water was quite thrilling without the capture. Pulled the pin 10 mins later.
All up about 1.5 hours fishing which I thought produced quite a good capture rate. Spoke to a few otherswho had walked around from the other (windless) side of the dam who hadn't had a strike.
I think it ill be the first of many.
Brett
Forgive me father for I have sinned - this is my first report in over 3 months. I shall strive to do better.
As many of you may know I've moved south - pretty much as south as you can go in Australia - except for Maquarie Island.
I've been really busy in the new store but managed to head out last Thursday to a little dam "Colebrook" - north of Richmond - about 40mins out of Hobart.
Wind was howling so picked a corner of the dam that the wind was blowing into and had stirred up the water to a nasty brown colour. Thought it should hold most of the feed but seeing as everyone else on the shore was on the other side out of the wind i thought I could be in the wrong.
Second cast with the green and gold ashley spinner (gotta have the 3 red dots on the side) had a hook-up at my feet as I was lifting the lure out of the water. It didn't stick. 25 minutes later hooked something solid after only 3 turns of the reel and a lovely brown came screaming out of the water and did plenty of tail walking. The 6lbp fireline was singing of the little Shimano and the new Daiwia rod was under nice curve.
Had to beach land him with no landing net but the lure was well an truly engulfed in his big gob and embedded. Leanne captured most of it on the digital from the next bay. She ran over for the close ups before the fish was succesfully released to terrorise someone else.
Moved further around the lake to the shallows where a little river comes into and floods out into shallow paddocks. Switched to a smaller Ashley spinner in the same colour to stay out of the weed. Had a bump earlier and 10 mins later got thumped by a big browny about 6 foot in front of me which I managed to see as it rolled over on the lure but failed to hook-up solid. The side of the fish as it came out of the water with the splash in the shallow water was quite thrilling without the capture. Pulled the pin 10 mins later.
All up about 1.5 hours fishing which I thought produced quite a good capture rate. Spoke to a few otherswho had walked around from the other (windless) side of the dam who hadn't had a strike.
I think it ill be the first of many.
Brett